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Red Hat 6.4.11 RHSA-2018:2419-01 Important: Deserialization Risk

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Calendar Grey August 15, 2018
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Important patch released for Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.4.11 tackling security vulnerabilities with essential corrections and improvements.
An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite

Solution

Before applying the update, back up your existing installation, including all applications, configuration files, databases and database settings, and so on.

It is recommended to halt the server by stopping the JBoss Application Server process before installing this update; after installing the update, restart the server by starting the JBoss Application Server process.

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update).

Summary

Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite is a business rules and processes management system for the management, storage, creation, modification, and deployment of JBoss rules and BPMN2-compliant business processes.
This release of Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.4.11 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.4.10, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.
Security Fix(es):
* slf4j: Deserialisation vulnerability in EventData constructor can allow for arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-8088)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank Chris McCown for reporting this issue.

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8088 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=rhpam&downloadType=securityPatches&version=6.4 https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_process_automation_manager/6.4/

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2419-01
Product: Red Hat Process Automation Manager
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2419
Issue date: 2018-08-15

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Relevant Releases Architectures

Bugs Fixed

1548909 - CVE-2018-8088 slf4j: Deserialisation vulnerability in EventData constructor can allow for arbitrary code execution

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